Associate Professor Tora Holmberg

Tora Holmberg is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. Her expertize lies in the intersection of animal studies, science and technology studies, feminist theory, cultural sociology, and urban studies. Thus, her interest in human/animal relations

Tora Holmberg has published books such as Science on the line (in Swedish 2005), Investigating human/animal relations(ed. 2009), Dilemmas with transgenic animals (in Swedish, with Malin Ideland 2010), and most recently, Urban Animals. Crowding in ZooCities (2015). Moreover, she has published on human/animal relations in a wide range of journals, eg. Space & Culture, Feminist Theory, Bio-SocietiesSociety & Animals and Public Understanding of Science, on topics such as animal experimentation, feminist epistemologies, multi-species urban politics and post-humanism. She is also a co-editor of the online journal Humanimalia.. Selected Publications

Holmberg, Tora, Urban Animals. Crowding in ZooCities, Routledge: London (in press, to be published March 2015)